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About the Role
This role focuses on boosting sales with key UK retailers, including Waterstones, Clubs, Fairs, independent bookshops, school suppliers, and libraries. You will collaborate with internal teams to drive sales strategies, build the company's profile, and identify opportunities to support the sales team, customers, and authors.
Responsibilities
- Boost sales with Waterstones, Clubs and Fairs.
- Drive strategy and build profile with independents, school suppliers and libraries.
- Help the rep team drive sales and create growth strategies with UK retailers in the independent bookshop market.
- Work with creative and M&P teams on smoothing processes and creating projects around indies, schools and libraries.
- Identify opportunities to support the sales team, customers, and authors and illustrators.
- Manage the day-to-day Waterstones account for children's books.
Requirements
- Commercially focused publishing professional.
- Strong account management skills.
- Strong relationship-building skills.
- Experience working with retailers, independent booksellers, and libraries.
- Good understanding of the children's book market.
- Proven ability to drive sales, develop partnerships, and identify new business opportunities.
- Legal right to work in the UK.
- Do not require visa sponsorship.
Skills
- Account management
- Relationship building
- Sales strategy
- Market analysis
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Professional
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive with benefits
Benefits
- Benefits plans
About the Company
- Simon & Schuster is a global leader in general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and non-fiction for readers of all ages, in all printed, digital and audio formats.
- Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards.
- It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Adams Media, Avid Reader Press, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio.
- It has international companies in Australia, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom.
- It brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories.
Equal Opportunity
- Simon & Schuster UK is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
- Committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity and gender expression.
- The spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do.
- Believes that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all.